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Regarding the claim that it, "runs on air", details?

Regarding the statements,

> "The project was more to show what’s possible in a connected society."

and

> "The project is considered by Sammartino to be a timely wake-up call for automotive manufacturers, in light of recent announcements from Ford and Holden that they will close down their local operations." I personally believe the Wikispeed SGT01 and OScar are more impressive in these areas.

   - http://wikispeed.org/2013/09/setting-up-your-own-wikispeed-shop-wherever-you-are/  

   - http://www.theoscarproject.org/

The researchers already functionally conducted an AB study - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-subject_research#A-B . In this case, they saw behavior with the machine turned on that went away when they turned the machine off. If they want to confirm that some aspect of the machine (and it doesn't matter if it's noise, smell, light, or some mousey-sense that we are completely unaware of) they could extend it to an ABAB study, by turning the machine on, noting the incidence of 'crazy' behaviors over a period of time, then turning it off again and noting the incidence of 'crazy' behaviors.

After being laid off, I was unemployed for several months and was required to submit at least 3 applications a week. On the face, that doesn't sound like many, and for some fields it probably isn't heard. But if you're in a specialized field, even finding 3 open positions to apply for becomes a full-time job. And each of those openings tended to require many hours of specialized work. Some of that time was moving a nicely developed resume into their proprietary applicant webpage (urgh!!!). There was one job that actually required me to develop a dummy website. Because I knew there were weeks when I wouldn't even be able to find 3 openings, when I found more than 3 I would intentionally wait until the following week to apply to the more promising openings. The idea being that I could do the minimum work on the required 3 applications, then spend the rest of the week diligently working on the more promising openings, and submit it first thing the following week.

Then there are the weeks that I couldn't even find 3 in my field and didn't have any left over from the previous week. For those I applied to complete throw-away positions. I felt sorry for whatever sap had to review my application.

All the while, I wish I had been able to focus on a handful of desirable positions and personal retraining. Instead, I spent months doing B.S. work just to be able to pay the mortgage until I was able to get a job, which ended up coming through a personal connection and would never have shown up on the radar that the unemployment office required me to use!

edited: initially linked to the wrong movie

The theme of the particular story is irrelevant. It's much more about how your linguistic assumptions will ... well, read the story and see! I recommend this particular story because about half of the stories' endings in "A Twist in the Tale" didn't surprise me at all (but I am surprised at how many people I know who were surprised by their endings), but "Just Good Friends" totally got me!

The last company I worked for closed our division (and laid all of us off) solely because of politics. The irony was that we had had the highest return on investment of any division in the company for more than a decade.

I'm now stuck in a dead-end job at a small company. Our CEO has an absolutely toxic managerial style and I need to get out. Unfortunately, I'm in one of those complicated situations where it's really hard to find another job (e.g., over 40, specialized field, geographically-bound).

The CEO's toxic management style means, among other things, we're all expected to work absurdly long hours. So, I don't have a lot of time to put in to job hunting or retraining, and I have vacillated between how I should be using my precious time.

One of the things I've considered was developing an app (that scratches an itch of mine; but I've heard others complaining about similar problems here on HN, so I know I'm not alone). While your experience certainly doesn't mean that I will get an offer, it supports the premise that a single app can lead down the right road.

Within the Soylent community, there are two acknowledged classes of soylent. The two are distinguished by using "Soylent" when referring to the "official" recipe, and "soylent" when referring to DIY versions.

Rob has stated several times that he isn't going to patent the Soylent recipe. The reason is because the only product on the market that comes even close to Soylent for complete nutrition (without lots of harmful other components) is Plumpy'nut [1]. Plumpy'nut's recipe is patented, so even if someone could produce it cheaper, they can't legally produce it.

Rob is keeping the Soylent formula open in large part so that other people can produce exact and comparable versions. In addition, Rob has not only allowed others to develop comparable version, but outright encouraged it. So much so that when NickP developed a tool to develop recipes based on a list of ingredients and individual goals, Rob promoted the tool and gave it a home on the official soylent.me domain - http://diy.soylent.me/

In otherwords, people are being actively encouraged by the founder of Soylent to develop versions of soylent that meet needs that are not met by Soylent. And people are rising to the challenge - http://diy.soylent.me/recipes?sort=dailyCost&pctComplete=0.9 There's even a 100% complete recipe that can be made for $2.45 per day; this works out to about $74.73 a month - http://diy.soylent.me/recipes/low-entry-barrier-soylent

tl;dr - Your concern has been already been acknowledged by the community; there are alternative recipes, including one that works out to $74.73 a month, which is well under the $225 SNAP allowance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy%27nut

"According to Arthur Whitmore, a press officer with the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Soylent would fall into the category of what the FDA considers food. Unlike a medication, Soylent will not require FDA approval, unless it contains some new type of food additive, which Rhinehart would need to disclose.

It’s important to Rhinehart that Soylent be considered a food, as opposed to a medicine or supplement, so that food-stamp recipients can buy it using EBT cards."

http://www.healthline.com/health-news/tech-is-powdered-soyle... http://discourse.soylent.me/t/fda-press-officer-comment/3783

> Soylent is not the first drink with calories in it, nor was Google the first search engine. There are many liquid diets. You'd probably be surprised how long you can survive on just cow's milk. No one says 'solid diets exist already' when someone makes a new food. I don't see how the viscosity makes up an entire category. I considered Ensure but found it much too expensive, low calorie, unpalatable, and an ingredient make up that was far from complete or optimal.

> The goal of soylent is to make something ideal, not just a quick shot that will get rid of hunger for a few hours. I need something that allows me to run and lift and think, not just survive, and something considerably cheaper than normal food. A big part of soylent is its personalization as well. There is no 2000 calorie human. If you want an ideal diet you have to personalize it.

http://discourse.soylent.me/t/comparing-soylent-to-existing-...

>All of which is to say that if a terrorist put it up to your neck, you would know whether it was real or not and whether to be worried. And you would then kick that terrorist's ass. [emphasis mine]

Only to find out the original calculations over-estimated any impact.

This made my day!!! This totally made my day!!!

One brother was a miraculous curer of all injuries and ills. It did not matter how far a disease or injury had progressed, he could cure the patient. He was known throughout the continent.

One brother was exemplar diagnostician of all injuries and ills. It did not matter what was wrong, he could diagnose the problem and if he was unable to solve the problem he would make a personal introduction the most knowledgeable expert on the matter. He was known throughout the country.

The third brother was just a humble backcountry physician. He wasn't very good at diagnosing or curing diseases. But he visited his clients frequently, and gave them advice on their diet, and home and work conditions. On the rare occasion when his clients got ill or injured, he tended them back to health and when possible helped them to remove the conditions leading to the ill or injury. He was only known throughout the village.

http://cdn.sett.com/images/user/201311080003dc887f36b225a18e...

[1] I've lived in the USA almost my entire life, and have never understood why "we" are "Americans" when there are many, many other countries on both American continents that aren't "Americans". Why is there not a term for us that is more accurate and less Americentric (wait, really?).

http://www.slideshare.net/jaymeattle/how-to-grow-your-own-fr...

TED presenter Kamal Meattle argues for: - Areca Palm - Mother-in-law's Tongue - Money Plant

A friend of the family was unexpectedly laid off, with insurance expiring at midnight the same day. She had the first of many grand mal seizures around 3 hours after the insurance expired.

The doctor who was first called in to the ER specialized in one type of cancer. He mother suspected she had a second type of cancer, and if so would be eligible for a free research study. Because she didn't have health insurance, she got whatever doctor the hospital assigned and she kept getting this guy. He refused to sign off saying she had the second type of cancer and he refused to admit her to the hospital, even when she was having more than 4 grand mals a week.

About a month and a half after her mother initially contacted them, she got them to look at her records, and the research team determined that she did in fact have the cancer they were studying and flew her out to their research facility. Unfortunately, by the time she got there, the researches said the cancer was 1-2 weeks beyond the effective window for their proposed treatment.

In the meantime, Florida legislators were working a bill to eliminate the bonus for specialists called into an ER. The young lady returned to Florida in time to see the bill passed. On her very next trip to the ER for a grand mal, the doctor that had several dozen times previously refused to admit her to the hospital finally admitted her (now that he wasn't going to get any more bonuses from ER visits)!

To add insult to injury, the young lady was a veteran from the first Gulf War. She died a little less than 3 months after being laid off. The VA still hadn't processed her paperwork to get her in the system.

It was not only excruciatingly depressing watching this young lady and her family's battle with cancer, it was a serious wake-up call about the problems with our health care system!

Edited to add: You are correct, the technical restriction was on the VMWare side, but IIRC it was because of legal threats from Apple. Apparently earlier versions of VMWare would run SL without any problems, but the VMWare version I had would not not and I couldn't get a copy of the older version.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqkYnfAhgy0